Transcript Michel GIRIN - CEDRE - MAPO : Marine Pollutions

SaferSeas / Management of Accidental Marine Pollution Seminar
Contributions to Exchange of
Experience Initiatives by IMO,
EMSA and Regional Organisations
Michel Girin
Director of Cedre.
Exchanging Experience
• Dissemination of experience: he who faced a
problem presents his decisions/actions to others, who
may be interested
• Exchange of experience: different parties, having
faced problems responding to similar situations
discuss their respective decisions/actions, with the
aim to do better next time
Examples
• Dissemination of experience on
response the Erika spill
• Exchange of experience on
response to heavy fuel spills
offshore
The limitations
• Communicating one’s experience: focusing on the
positive achievements or telling the truth to the
negative points ?
• Party to exchange with: mutual confidence and
mutual interest are required
•►A facilitator may be needed to convince
the parties concerned to join and share
The facilitators
• International: the IMO
• Europe: MCMP, EMSA, The Research framework and
the Interreg programmes
• Regional: HELCOM, the Bonn, Lisbon and Barcelona
Agreements
•►Cedre is technical adviser on marine
pollution management to the French
delegations at all the above
IMO: the R&D Forums
• Worldwide seminars on particular thematics
attached to the trio of International Conferences
IOSC (USA), SPILLCON (Australia) and
INTERSPILL (Europe)
• Ex: responding to heavy fuel oil spills, Brest, 2003
• ►Exchanges
between scientists, industry
and administrations, worldwide, low
frequency (next one : 2009)
Europe, DG Env, MCMP
• Incidents reviews at MCMP meetings
• The workshops, pilot studies, joint exercises and
training sessions in the rolling plan
• The Eumarex exchange of experts programme
• ►Committee
and plan
terminated end of 2006.
► Programme integrated in civil
security exchanges in mid 2007
Community framework for cooperation
(2000-2006)
Objectives
• Support and supplement Member State’s efforts in the field of
preparedness
• Improve Member State’s response
• Promote efficient mutual assistance and cooperation
Current actions
• Management of a three-year rolling plan (workshops, pilot
projects, exercises…)
• Community Information System (CIS)
• Response to emergencies (via the Mechanism)
Example of MCMP achievement: the
EUMAREX exchanges of experts
• Stays of a few days to a few weeks in a selected
institution of another country
• Duration of programme: 5 years (2002-2006)
• Total experts exchanged: 120
• Countries first receivers: UK/Norway (18 Experts)
• Country first provider: Spain (24 Experts)
►A must for all involved in pollution response
Activities continue within the civil protection exchange programme
Europe, EMSA
• Thematic workshops : use of dispersants,
response to HNS pollution...
• European reviews : oil spill recovery vessels,
Eutopean cooperative projects...
• GroupS of European experts : satellite imagery,
spill response...
• ►Progressively
taking over the
exchange of experience activities
in the terminated MCMP rolling plan
Examples of recent EMSA workshops
• Places of refuge: cooperation, liability and compensation
• Directive on port reception facilities for ship generated waste and
cargo residues
• Implementation of Directive on ship-source pollution
• Pollution Response workshop for Bulgaria and Romania
• Revision of MARPOL annex VI
• Implementation of the HNS Convention
• Training for Bulgaria and Romania on the HNS Convention
• Ship-sourced Chemical Pollution at Sea: Risk, Preparedness &
Response in Europe
• Ratification and Implementation of HNS and Bunkers Conventions
•Satellite Monitoring of Oil Spills over European Waters
•Use of Oil Spill Dispersants in European Waters
►Exchanges of experience
+ assistance to new members
Europe, Research framework
programmes
• Cooperative research projects on all aspects of
marine pollution prevention, response and impactss
• Development of improves tests, procedures and
tools for response and response monitoring
►Progressively building the European
scientific oil spill response know-how
Examples of Cooperative Studies and
Research Projects
•NEEDS: EU Energy needs for the future, externalities of oil transport
•DEEPP: Databank on potentially polluting shipwrecks
•INTERRISK: Interoperable GMES Services for Environmental Risk
Management in Marine and Coastal Areas
•PRAGMA: Experimental tools to assess the extent and impact of a major
oil spill
•RESPIL: Experimental impact study of 2 chemical pollutants
•OSH: Oil Sea Harvester, large offshore oil recovery vessel
•SPREEX: Spill response experience based research needs
•AMPERA: Optimisation of the EU Accidental Marine Pollution research
effort
•ASMA: Survey, modelling and remote sensing techniques for Monitoring
and Assessment of environmental impacts of submerged oil
►A wide variety of topics and participants
Europe, Interreg
Cooperative projects:
• to disseminate in local communities
experience established at national level,
• to establish mutual assistance procedures
between neighbouring communities
►Exchange of experience at local level
Examples of Interreg projects
Interreg South Western Atlantic:
• LOSTCONT: response to containers lost at sea. Partners from
France, Spain, Portugal
• EROCIPS: Emergency Response to coastal Oil, Chemical and Inert
Pollution from Shipping. Partners from UK, France, Spain, Portugal
• PRESTIGE: Experience gained from the Prestige incident. Partners
from France, Spain
• ►Exchange of experience on practical matters
Regional Agreements
• Helcom (Baltic), Bonn (North Sea) are self
financed. Barcelona benefits of an IMO/EU financed
facilitator (REMPEC)
•The information/services a country gets is what
others bring in: incident reviews at technical
meetings, mutual aid
• In the most advanced: a joint oil spill response
manual, joint oil spil response exercises, with
intercalibration
• ►Serving
prioritarily
operational response needs
Examples: Bonn agreement
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The mutual information on pollution incidents
The common “color code” for slick thickness
assessment
The yearly operational spills in the North Sea
map
The joint oil spill response manual
The invitations to join members exercises
The mutual assistance agreement
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►Tackling all aspects of the response package
Dissemination and exchange of
experience are permanent activities
at Cedre as:
• incident response archivist
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technical adviser
operator of test facilities
partner in development projects
specialised trainer